Re: Procedure for adding new MIB

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 11:33 +0000, John Joseph wrote:
> Hi 
>     Please  check this procedure and please tell me ,
> if there is anything wrong in adding the MIB for any
> new product 

Are you talking about adding a MIB to the SNMP client
tools (i.e. being able to refer to OIDs by name rather
than number and have the results displayed sensibly) ?

Or are you talking about adding a MIB to the agent
(i.e. having it return extra information that it
didn't do before)?

> 1> Get the MIB for the product  from the vendor
> 2> copy the mib to the mibs directory 
> “/usr/share/snmp/mibs”
> 3> in snmp.conf file  add this 
>  mibdirs /usr/share/snmp/mibs
>            mibs ALL

This is the correct procedure for adding a MIB to the
client side.  See the FAQ entry

    How do I add a MIB to the tools?


> 4>Restart the daemon

That's not strictly necessary in this case, since
you're working with the client side only.


If you're talking about adding a MIB to the agent,
then this is *not* sufficient.  You need to write
some code to actually implement the MIB - just
loading the MIB file is not enough.
See the FAQ entry

    How do I add a MIB to the agent?

Dave


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